thisbluespirit: (writing)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: stories we tell ourselves
Story: Starfall
Colors: Colour of the Day - 9/8/22 (gens du monde)
Supplies and Styles: Miniature Collection
Word Count: 400 words (4x drabbles)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Leaira Modelen, Aimon Merner, Pio Caffsley, Kaia Aemullens, Osmer Nivyrn; CotD flashfic - some random little moments for people.
Summary: The important people don't always know the important things.

stories we tell ourselves )
bookblather: George Clooney in a suit and sunglasses, looking at the camera. (Christopher Hennessy : George Clooney)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: simply because the world is beautiful
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Cool black 12 (I've been everywhere, man), daffodil 11 (go exploring), Paris green 2 (Expensive) with shadowsong's paint by numbers: (I saved up for a year to get this; it was totally worth it)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, novelty beads Marvelous Things, Eisley
Word Count: 300
Rating: G
Summary: Smokey goes travelling.
Warning: none.
Notes: Title from a poem by Louise Gluck. Last cool black! And finally getting started on my winter challenge... ahem.

simply because the world is beautiful )
thisbluespirit: (divide & rule)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Twice Around the Cabbage Patch
Story: Divide & Rule/Heroes of the Revolution
Colors: Vienna Orange #16 (This is where you come from, the anchor that you can't leave behind
Supplies and Styles: Miniature Collection Paint-by-Numbers from [personal profile] shadowsong26 (change is hard; change is sometimes maybe not worth it) + Graffiti (For October Bingo square “leaf”)
Word Count: 4 x 100
Rating: PG
Warnings: mentions of loss/death, hints of a dystopia.
Notes: 1960s/1970s; Julia Graves.
Summary: Julia finds her solace in both life and death.

Twice Around the Cabbage Patch )
shadowsong26: (simon)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: cocoon
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Cerise #8. Sleeping in, Lapis Lazuli #9. gingerly
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 3: Second Stage), photography, pointilism, miniature collection, eraser (Ruth AU), novelty beads ("you take me in/no questions asked/you strip away the ugliness/that surrounds me." Sweet Surrender, Sarah McLachlan)
Word Count: 249
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Ruth, Simon (here known as David)
Warnings: Michaela being Michaela in the background; the story deals with a couple after a long separation and slowly working their way back together; oblique/implied sex.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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shadowsong26: (lux)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Bittersweet
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Cerise #14. Loved one left a note, Lapis Lazuli #18. breathtaking, Color of the Day (prelapsarian)
Supplies and Materials: miniature collection, graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 1, Main Stage), pointillism, glue ("Taking yourself out of your logical brain and letting emotional intelligence guide you may be difficult at the moment. Still, your heart is a more trustworthy navigator to follow right now.")
Word Count: 309
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Lux, Mariko
Warnings: This is. Uh. Not a healthy relationship. Discussion of impending character death.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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bookblather: Mia Maestro pulling her hair back. (Charlotte Hennessy : Mia Maestro)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Bloom
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Daffodil 6 (new growth), color of the day (dissilient),
Supplies and Materials: Novelty beads (a flower), miniature collection, seed beads
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG
Summary: Katie and her garden.
Warning: none.
Notes: Pride #6.

Bloom )
thisbluespirit: (divide & rule)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
I completed Cloudy Grey with this one.

Name: Sunshine and Smiles
Story: Divide & Rule/Heroes of the Revolution
Colors: Cloudy Grey #9 (multiply)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (also for [community profile] allbingo square “Tulip (Yellow) – There’s Sunshine in Your Smile”) + Miniature Collection + Novelty Beads (Birthday Challenge: Sunflower, Drew Sarich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYkK49OGg_Y)
Word Count: 5 x100
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956. Julia Graves/Edward Iveson, Daisy Long, Nancy Long, Isabel Andrews. (I thought if I could do a morbid drabble chain, I could do a happy one, too, so I made this.)
Summary: Julia and that most dangerous thing, happiness.

Sunshine and Smiles )
thisbluespirit: (divide & rule)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Rites of Mourning
Story: Divide & Rule/Heroes of the Revolution
Colors: Ecru #12 (end)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (for [community profile] hc_bingo square “family”) + Miniature Collection + Novelty Beads ( No looking back, birthday prompt from [personal profile] dray)
Word Count: 5 x 100
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mentions of death, loss, suicide.
Notes: 1936, 1954, 1955, 1960. Julia Graves, Hanne Graves, Edward Iveson. I’m sorry, I was feeling fed up with myself for never writing short things, but apparently I can again if I go very morbid. Yay?? Drabble chain. (Hugh Taylor is Edward's stepfather he hates.)
Summary: Julia, and funerals.

Rites of Mourning )
shadowsong26: (mariko)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Steps to Starting Over
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Jet Pack Blues #13. Baby, we should have left our love in the gutter where we found it, The Hills of Iowa #2. Oh, my enemy, beautiful enemy.
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 1: Second Stage), pointillism, miniature collection, photography, novelty beads ("And you didn't mean to do it/So I don't have to believe it/If you didn't really mean it/Magical thinking gets us by." Fairweather Friend, Vanessa Carlton)
Word Count: 366
Rating: R
Characters: Mariko
Warnings: References to war and the fire, implications of an abusive relationship.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. References to these previous bits: one, two, three, four.


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ilthit: (Age of Sail)
[personal profile] ilthit
Name: In the Telling
Story: Nature Ventured
Colors: Grey #4: Grey mood
Supplies and Styles: Miniature Collection, Nubs ("gest"), Pastels
Word Count: 333
Rating: general
Summary: Three times Martin Thomas told the story of his involvement in the Parthenopean Republic, and one time he didn't.
Contains: References historical war crimes. Set during the Napoleonic wars.
Notes: Also for [community profile] trope_bingo Round Fourteen. A little style-dickery: 3 x three sentences, 1 x five sentences.

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ilthit: (Modesty Blaise)
[personal profile] ilthit
Name: Renunciations
Story: The Quality of Mercy (Peccadillo Parlour)
Colors: Canary Yellow #8: It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.
Supplies and Styles: n/a
Word Count: 450
Rating: general
Warnings: None.
Summary: The betrayal, in a series of 50-word moments. 

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shadowsong26: (nida)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Keeping Silent
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Red Summer Sun #9. Still I recoil like mace, in all the little moments I pushed you away that I can't erase, Library Yellow #6. abditory, Jet Pack Blues #6. Sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Fair Day Four: Main Stage), photography, miniature collection, canvas (943 FY; 953 FY; 962 FY), brush (deleterious), stain (“The dream is gone and the baby is real”), modeling clay (what beast lurks)
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Nida
Warnings: References to suicide attempt/botched regicide [i.e., planned to poison the King, changed mind at last minute and switched the glasses]
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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bookblather: Mia Maestro pulling her hair back. (Charlotte Hennessy : Mia Maestro)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Who You Are Today
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Black saturation
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, graffiti (Lilith Faire Second Stage This One's For the Girls, Martina McBride), canvas, frame, novelty beads (age is just a number)
Word Count: 1500
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The Hennessy girls: Isobel, Miranda, Charlotte, Emma, and Glory.
Warning: Classism, racism, sexism, sexual harassment, customer harassment.
Notes: Glory's future profession is subject to change without notice.

Who You Are Today )
shadowsong26: (nolani)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: A Multitude of Things
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Red Summer Sun #15. I'm the one for you—'cause I know all the dirty things you like to do; Library Yellow #23. sphallolalia
Supplies and Materials: photography, miniature collection, pointillism, graffiti (Lilith Fair Day One: Main Stage, canvas (the first one), frame (the last two)
Word Count: 359
Rating: PG
Characters: Nolani
Warnings: Brief references to character death and the (temporary) end of a relationship
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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bookblather: Rachel Hurd-Wood smiling at the camera (In the Heart: adult Summer)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Bouquet
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Lapis lazuli 16 (beguile)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, frame (the last three), modeling clay (speak), graffiti (single bloom and bouquet, actually), novelty beads (raspberry blossom).
Word Count: 400
Rating: G
Summary: Summer and flowers.
Warnings: none.
Notes:

Bouquet )
dark_kana: (write)
[personal profile] dark_kana
Name: Kana
Title: You are
Story: Circle never ends
Characters: Freya
Colors: Spilt Ink 9. You keep trying to tell the truth about who you are but you keep changing, every time someone listens.
Supplies and Styles: Pointilism – Miniature collection - Photography
Word count: 218
Rating: PG
Summary: She is many things
Notes: Constructive criticism is, as always, welcome



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bookblather: A picture of Tricia Helfer in a white shirt, smiling, with her chin in her hand. (in the heart: gina)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: On Wasted Fields
Story: In the Heart - Straight AU
Colors: Warm light 4 (Somehow these pieces must bring back the man you were), silver screen 1 (Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.), paris green 15 (City Garden) with shadowsong's paint-by-numbers (Children at the park.)
Supplies and Materials: Tapestry (warm light/seed beads), seed beads, miniature collection, novelty beads (spit), eraser
Word Count: 400
Rating: PG
Summary: The McKean children and their father's grave.
Warnings: Mentioned domestic and child abuse.
Notes: This is an AU where Gina is straight, and these are her children.

On Wasted Fields )
shadowsong26: (lux)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: light
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Paprika #13. You ain't fooling nobody but yourself., Kingfisher Blue #12. 不做虧心事, 半夜不怕鬼敲門: he who never wrongs others is not afraid of ghosts knocking in the night (a quiet conscience sleeps in thunder), Moonlight #9. Ember
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Red Carpet, Day 4; shoujo-ai), pointillism, photography, miniature collection, charcoal (at this point in the story), glitter, glue ("Emotionally connecting with your friends enables you to stay in touch with your own feelings, too. But don't expect any lingering confusion about your relationships to disappear overnight. In fact, your uncertainty about the future may actually deepen now. ")
Word Count: 382
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Lux, Mariko
Warnings: References to the fire, angelic POV
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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shadowsong26: (mellir)
[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: The Aftermath
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Grey, Kingfisher Blue #9. 為善不欲人知 (those who do good deeds should not do them out of desire for attention)
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (April Showers), saturation, miniature collection, photography, eraser (Assassination AU), brush (orientate)
Word Count: 1000
Rating: R
Characters: Mellir
Warnings: References to genocide and fratricide and excessive drinking and sex.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. More of this AU can be found here.


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[personal profile] greenling
Name: Greenling
Story: Juniper Ridge
Colors: White Russian, Rain Cloud #6 (I think I have a cold)
Supplies and Styles: Saturation, Charcoal, Miniature Collection, Pointillism, Stained Glass
Word Count: 300ish?
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Summary: One sentence semi-challenge Saturation in a new 'verse that seems to be sticking. I have a couple more at least. May I have "Ridgeverse" as a tag?

Saturation~ )

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